 Hey, what's up everybody? So in this video I'm going to show you how I make simple lyric videos for some musician friends of mine so that they can get their music out there while we are stuck away and can't really do many live and person music videos. This is a great way without any plugins or anything else to just take some stock footage and to, you know, add the lyrics on top of it, put the track together and have something that works pretty well. So this is how I do that process. So I always get started with, I pull the song in on the, you know, the audio track. You know, an MP3 will work for this, but you really want to have a higher quality audio file, if possible, a WAV file or an AF file. If you can get a hold of that, that'd be even better. Then I always will put down this just a straight black background for the full length of the song. This is so that any chopping that I do of the tracks or of the video tracks above, they don't, you know, cause any timing issues with anything that I've previously done. This keeps everything in sync and it also gives you a good way just to fade to black if you need to do that for one of the transitions. And so next I will listen to the song several times, look at the lyrics, and then I'll go on to a site like Storyblocks where I have a subscription and I will type in keywords and, you know, try to find clips that convey the story and the feeling of the song that I feel like the artist is trying, you know, to put out there. I'll download a lot of clips and sort of see how they fit together and start to piece them together to be able to tell the story. This particular one, you know, he wanted a lot of rain and, you know, weather type stuff, you know, cloudy weather, but everything is going to be okay. You know, so sometimes, you know, you'll find a long clip like this for the entire chorus. That's great. Oftentimes I try to keep it to, you know, 10 seconds or so at the maximum for a particular clip. After that, I just go through and for the most part, I just use the basic title and pick a nice font and, you know, a location on the screen of where it doesn't, you know, necessarily interfere with the subject of the video. And I'll just, you know, type out the lyrics or sometimes you'll have them, you know, in a document that you can copy, paste. Just if you type in yourself, make sure you do a spell check or something so that, you know, you're not putting a video out there with misspelled words for the artist who really wouldn't like. That's not very cool. So, you know, I just kind of begin to put all of these in here and line everything up, you know, takes a bit of time to do that to make sure that, you know, they are on the screen at the same time that the singer, you know, is saying the words. There is another title that I use sometimes, this one right here that was something free I found online. I think it's inspired by chain smokers video or something. I will use it occasionally, just kind of throw it in. It's fairly limiting as far as, you know, how these move on the screen, but they're nice to use sometimes. I'll put a link in the description so that anybody can grab that from the place that I found it. But in general, I just kind of go through, I put the clips in place, try to tell the story. I pull the text into the screen, try to have a lot of movement, a lot of light. You know, sometimes I'll do Luma transitions like this, but very often they're just straight, you know, fades. This cross dissolve transition is what I use the most. Sometimes I will take a couple of clips like this and I will do an overlay. So like this has a blend mode of overlay with, you know, the opacity is brought down and I'll set keyframes so that I can, you know, bring the opacity up or down as needed. And so I'm kind of, you know, blending in this, you know, tornado or this storm cloud here with this guy and the rain with his arms raised up in the V, just two clips I found that really kind of fit together. And so I kind of try to blend things like this together along with the lyrics just to kind of add some more emotion and tell some more story with the song. So this is pretty much how I do the majority of my lyric videos. I really don't charge very much for this just a few hundred dollars because it's, as you can see, it's not a whole lot of effort. You know, if you have a subscription to something like Storyblocks or some other service that gives you, you know, royalty-free stock footage that you're free to use for whatever purpose, just make sure that whatever you use at your license for otherwise, you know, you don't want to get the artist in any kind of trouble for that. So I hope that you learned something from this and that, you know, you can make some lyric videos on your own and make sure to subscribe if you like this type of stuff. I've got more tutorials like this on the way and thanks for watching.